GE IT STRAIGHT
Love your country always: but government only gets respect when they deserve it.

Don't allow the ACTA to tighten the noose around the the people's neck. Protect the commons from corporations corrupt copyright controls standards of practice.

Recording Industry Association of America

The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) supports the agreement, and has given input and suggestions to the creation of ACTA

Once Again, Entertainment Industry Looks To
Force Massive Copyright Changes Via Int'l Treaties

Once Again, Entertainment Industry Looks To Force Massive Copyright Changes Via Int'l Treaties

from the how-the-game-is-played dept


By now you should know that one of the entertainment industry's
favorite tools for forcing ever more draconian copyright laws around
the world is to use international treaties. Such treaties are not put
together by elected officials, but appointed diplomats, often with
tremendous input (to the point of allowing them to write the details)
from industries that are protected. Then, once those treaties are in
place, copyright maximalists just get to sit back and say "but we must
make our copyright laws stronger if we ever expect to live up to our
international obligations..." The latest such attempt is the infamous
ACTA bill, which the entertainment industry has had a heavy hand in
crafting -- but the public is told that the treaty negotiations are
matters of national security and cannot be revealed. Uh huh.